January 2012
“Something’s gotta give,
it may as well be our fingers.
Touch me, ‘til my ribs...”
– Andrea Gibson
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds - but I think of...”
– Salvador Plascencia
“Some days my heart beats so fast
my ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad...”
– Andrea Gibson
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“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither...”
– The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer, The Iliad
“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
– Dave Eggers
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“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
– Lemony Snicket
“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“By the time she was seventeen her whole life was unbearable. And when I think...”
– Jazz by Toni Morrison
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goodbyes
I just told someone I thought I was half in love with that I wanted them in my life, but I really didn’t need them. So I said sorry and that I had no choice but to say goodbye because I deserve so much more. And I feel so guilty saying that, even though I know it’s true, because they were someone I’ve been closest to for the longest length of time. They singlehandedly made me so...
